Starting Saturday morning, November 22, 2025, Lyn Johnson and Bruce Rawles will share weekly 1-hour conversations (7:30 am Pacific Time) on ACIM Gather online radio. We’ll read and discuss the book A Symphony of Love: Selections of Dr. Kenneth Wapnick’s Writings: Autobiographies, Poetry, Short Stories, and Articles by Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D., and Gloria Wapnick. Here’s the writeup from the Amazon listing for this book (which is available in both Kindle and Paperback versions, and also directly from the Foundation for A Course In Miracles)
“The purpose of this book is to present some of the unpublished writings and published professional journal writings of Dr. Kenneth Wapnick in all their diversity. I use the word diversity because his poetry and his short stories are so exquisitely different, his poetry especially being a dedication to God and Jesus, while his short stories explore different themes. (From the Preface by Gloria Wapnick) The book begins with two very powerful unpublished autobiographies, My Life with God and My Life with Jesus. The first, My Life with God, Kenneth wrote at the request of Helen Schucman, who urged him to do that project in 1973. The second, My Life with Jesus, was done mostly after we moved to Temecula in 2001, since people kept asking for one. One of the reasons My Life with Jesus is short compared to My Life with God is that I had asked Kenneth not to write about our relationship.” (From the Introduction by Gloria Wapnick)
If you’ve watched and listened to Ken’s profound, prodigious, and prolific videos on YouTube or listened to his audios or read his writing, especially interacting and joking with students during his Academy classes and workshops, you can appreciate his marvelous sense of humor. From the last sentence in the writeup, you can tell that Gloria (in addition to having a wonderful command of the Course’s metaphysics) also had a wonderful sense of humor!
As with our prior book readings, the conversation will be live (and archived) on ACIM Gather online radio,; here are more details and streaming/archive locations for both past and future recordings:
Our conversation history on ACIM Gather
Preliminary monologues
Initially starting March 20, 2012, encouraged by David “Dov” Fishman via a short conversation at a CMC (Community Miracles Center) Course conference in San Francisco, I began a solo (monologue) “online radio” show on ACIMgather.us which streamed on PalTalk. I enjoyed sharing Course-related ideas. As I became familiar with the platform and the process, I realized that a 1-person program was fine, but I knew there must be a better way.
This lasted until about April 17, 2016, when Lyn Johnson and I decided to have a regular weekly dialogue, replacing my monologues. Our first topic was “Not No: Turning up the volume on our Inner Kindness Teacher’s Gentle Mindfulness”
We quickly realized that the principle of shared interests greatly enhanced both our experience and enjoyment of the sharing, as well as the depth of our understanding and appreciation of what we were reading and commenting on, as well as each other and everyone participating, either live or via the archive recordings.
Initially, we were somewhat spontaneous with our topics, always centered on deepening our experience of A Course In Miracles. After a number of weeks os these random-ish topics, we then (for many weeks) read and discussed many of the questions and answers from the Q&A (nearly 1400 questions and answers, supervised and edited by Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.) from Foundation for A Course In Miracles. Here’s the writeup for the Q&A which is available in ePub, pdf and Kindle formats; a superb resource of 1388 every day questions with practical answers informed by the very usable wisdom in ACIM and the impeccable insights of Ken Wapnick and his staff.
In 2002 the Foundation began its Question and Answer Service to help students of A Course in Miracles with their understanding of its theory and practice. Nearly 1,400 questions were submitted at the Foundation’s website through 2008, when it seemed that the range of topics covered was more than sufficient. Some questions were answered by Kenneth but most were assigned by him to staff members and one other person he selected. Kenneth reviewed all answers and made revisions accordingly before they were posted.
Over the years many people asked the Foundation to publish the document in book or pamphlet form to make it easier to use. In response to these requests and also in light of the expense of hosting the service for 16 years, the Foundation decided to produce this searchable digital file and make it available for sale. Before his death in December 2013, Kenneth had already set in motion the process of preparing the Questions and Answers for publication. This PDF file can be read on almost any device, does not require an internet connection once downloaded, and can be printed if desired.
Further dialogues: Gary Renard’s 4th book (Jesus, Buddha, Mary Magdalen and more)
After reading selected portions of the FACIM Q&A, from about November 2017 through October 2019 we read and conversed about Gary Renard’s 4th book, The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other: A History of Mighty Companions. Here’s a post with more details about that book and our conversations about it.
Here’s the write-up of the book on Amazon:
“These stories about the multiple shared lifetimes of Jesus and the Buddha’s reincarnations offer startling revelations about the universe, A Course in Miracles, and the path to enlightenment
Two and a half decades ago, Ascended Master Teachers Arten and Pursah appeared to Gary Renard and held a series of conversations with him that elaborated on the teachings of two spiritual classics, The Gospel of Thomas and A Course in Miracles. Gary immortalized what he learned in the books of his best-selling series: The Disappearance of the Universe, Your Immortal Reality, and Love Has Forgotten No One. This fourth book is a companion to the original trilogy, yet written to stand alone—an invitation for new readers into this fascinating work.
This book explores six of the lifetimes in which the incarnations of Jesus and Buddha lived together, beginning in 700 B.C. when they were known as Saka and Hiroji. Through the spiritual lessons that Jesus and Buddha learn on their path, Arten and Pursah clarify the difference between duality and nonduality. When you are able to internalize these lessons, you will be saved countless years in your spiritual development.”
Our first “Ken book” dialogues: The Journey Home
Here is a post about our prior conversations between November 2, 2019, through June 10, 2023, and another of Ken’s masterpiece books: The Journey Home on ACIM Gather.
Here’s a post with more details about “The Journey Home” book and our dialogues about it.
Here is the description from the Amazon page:
“This book consists of a substantial expansion of the discussion in The Obstacles to Peace, first published in 1987. In revising his earlier work, Kenneth has added an extensive introduction and epilogue, and tripled the discussion, including many more references to other passages in the Course. In addition, the old question-and-answer format has been changed to enhance the flow of the material.”The Obstacles to Peace” sections present the important themes in “A Course in Miracles,” stated in powerful and beautiful language as well. These range from the metaphysical theme of how God did not create the world and the body—and indeed knows absolutely nothing about them—to the specific teachings on the projection of guilt, and its undoing through the practice of forgiveness in our special relationships. There are also some incisive passages where Jesus speaks of himself and the projections that have been put upon him, emphasizing the important role the ego has given him in its thought system. This distortion is corrected by Jesus making clear the nature of the role he has in his thought system, undoing the ego through helping us to change our minds about what we think and perceive.”
Our most recent “Ken book” dialogues: Absence from Felicity
From June 17, 2023 through November 15, 2025, Lyn Johnson and Bruce Rawles shared weekly Saturday morning conversations (7:30 am Pacific Time) on ACIM Gather online radio. We read from and talked about Absence from Felicity: The Story of Helen Schucman and Her Scribing of A Course in Miracles by by Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D. Unlike most of the brilliant books by Ken Wapnick, this book is primarily a biography, yet intersperses her personal (fascinating) account with countless insights about ACIM’s metaphysics.
Helen’s story is really everyone’s story in the sense that we all have enormous resistance to accepting the Truth of our real, inclusive Identity. Helen once said (about the Course that came through her) “I know it’s true, I just don’t believe it.” Judy Skutch Whitson (the original publisher of the Course) eivdently responded to Helen upon hearing this remark that perhaps the remark should have been “I know it’s true, I just won’t believe it.” This resistance is what we’re all working through with help from our Inner Kindness Teacher.
Here is the Amazon description of the book:
“This biography of Helen Schucman—the scribe of A Course in Miracles, dictated by Jesus—focuses on the lifetime conflict between her spiritual nature and her ego, and the relationship of this conflict to her scribing of the Course. The book includes extensive excerpts from Helen’s own recollections, the personal messages she received from Jesus, and her dreams and letters—all never before in print. Presented here as well is some of the personal instructional material from Jesus. This material constituted an integral part of the original dictation of the Course, which was later removed as directed by Jesus.Absence from Felicity highlights the process of the Course’s scribing, Helen’s personal experiences of Jesus, and her relationship with William Thetford, her close friend and psychologist-colleague at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City, as well as her collaborator in the scribing of A Course in Miracles. The last part of the book contains reminiscences of Helen by Kenneth Wapnick, the author, which draw upon his intimate relationship with the scribe that spanned the last eight years of her life. Finally, in the context of Helen’s experiences, there is a discussion of Jesus which focuses on the appearance and the reality of our relationship with him.”
Here are the audio archives of our conversations on “Absence from Felicity”
You can listen live to our conversations on Saturday mornings here on ACIM Gather online radio. Here is the ACIM Gather YouTube Streaming channel. Enjoy! :-)
That’s brings us up to the present day, eager to embark on the book A Symphony of Love: Selections of Dr. Kenneth Wapnick’s Writings: Autobiographies, Poetry, Short Stories, and Articles by Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D., and Gloria Wapnick. starting Saturday, November 22, 2025!
Here’s a sample of our “Absence From Felicity” conversations: